My gas ran out, and my mum was using the electric fire we have, but it costs a lot to use it, so I went out with the gas key and card, to put money in, so we could get more gas. It takes a while for it to go through all of the process, so as it was happening, I looked up at the sky, taking it all in, in its purpley-black, spotted with silvery moonlit cloud greatness, caught the moon, and suddenly, my mind went into this song:

and I started laughing to myself.

This is another image taken by hubble space telescope, in 1995. It is ‘the pillars of creation’, located in the eagle nebula. What this is, is left over gas from the big bang. After the big bang, there was only hydrogen, helium and dark matter. Over time, the gas started swirling around, heating up, and then forming stars. Within stars, other elements were created. As supernovas (a supernova is the death of a star) happened, hydrogen, helium, rock and everything else created within the stars were shot across the universe during the explosion. Over time, rock clumped together, and planets were formed. Basically, everything ‘natural’ and ‘pure’ in the universe is the descendant of a star. Even you.

The nebula that it’s part of has given birth to new stars over millions of years, some of them gargantuan sized, dwarfing our sun. Stars are still being created within this, and therefore everything else. This, in some form, is godlike.